Art is the proper task of life

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Art is the proper task of life • •

My work, my missions:

→ My art practice

As a painter, my work is about exploring energy, inner states, and ways of seeing that aren’t easily captured in words. My art practice is a way of training attention — learning how to see more clearly, feel more precisely, and respond honestly to what’s present. The work is slow, intuitive, and shaped by curiosity and commitment to art as a higher calling.

  • I write essays on art and creativity on my Substack: The State of the Art

  • Many of you will know me from The 500 Project - a 5 year body of work where I painted and gave away 500 original paintings as a prolific act of kindness


→ Product Design & Leadership

Alongside my art practice, I work as a product design leader, thinking deeply about how great product craft can be applied to systems at scale.

I’m view digital tools as extensions of human capability, and believe software should enable humans to do meaningful work they are proud of. Much of my writing explores the principles of design, product craft and what it means to build systems people can feel good using.

  • If you’re interested in staying in touch with this side of me, connect on LinkedIn and check out my Substack: The Things We Build for essays on product design, leadership, and systems

Paint palette with various colors of paint, a paintbrush, and a jar of grayish-green paint on a multicolored worktable.